Scott McLeod

Scott McLeod

Associate Professor of Educational Administration, Iowa State University

Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky. He also is the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation’s only academic center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video series, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National School Boards Association. In Spring 2011 he was a Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at Dangerously Irrelevant and Mind Dump, and occasionally at The Huffington Post. He can be reached at scottmcleod.net.

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The newest video by Common Craft is about augmented reality. Lately I’ve been showing some augmented reality examples to school administrators, just to give them a taste of what’s to come… […]
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A couple of folks have contacted me, saying that they weren’t getting any of my posts after April 23, 2010. That’s the last date I posted before I moved over […]
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Well, I think the Tech&Learning 100@30 list just got a LOT more interesting… New additions include a few popular edubloggers such as Chris Lehmann, Gary Stager, Joyce Valenza, and David Warlick. It’s […]
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Sarah Daly (@IrishAsian05) – a self-described Spanish teacher, school counselor, almost criminologist, Notre Dame grad, shoe addict, and pug lover in New Jersey – is my 6,000th Twitter follower. Thanks for the follow, Sarah, and […]
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[I’m reviving my Blogs That Deserve a Bigger Audience (DABA) feature. If there is a blog that you think should be featured here, drop me a note.] Today the Crimson […]
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[I’m reviving my Blogs That Deserve a Bigger Audience (DABA) feature. If there is a blog that you think should be featured here, drop me a note.] Today I am […]
[This is a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant, meant to help us get to know some edubloggers a little better. If you’d like to be featured sometime, drop me […]
It’s tough to know when to scale back. We have causes and people that we’re committed to, responsibilities that we want to fulfill, teams that we want to support, and […]
I commented back in January that I was confused about what was happening with Feedburner. I’m not sure that I have any greater clarity now than I did before. Here […]